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The Practicing Poet: Writing Beyond the Basics

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Organized into ten sections with each devoted to a poetic concept, The Practicing Poet begins with “Discovering New Material,” “Finding the Best Words,” “Making Music,” “Working with Sentences and Line Breaks,” and  “Crafting Surprise.” The concepts become progressively moresophisticated, moving on to “Achieving Tone,” “Dealing with Feelings,” “Transforming Your Poems,” “Rethinking and Revising,” and “Publishing Your Book.”

 

The book includes thirty brief craft essays, each followed by a model poem and analysis of the poem’s craft, then a prompt based on the poem. Ten recyclable bonus prompts are also included. Contributors include such poets as Patricia Smith, Dorianne Laux, George Bilgere, and David Kirby.

 

The Practicing Poetpushes poets beyond the basics and encourages the continued reading, learning, and writing of poetry. It is suitable as a textbook in the classroom, a guidebook in a workshop, or an at-home tutorial for the practicing poet working independently.


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  • Home
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  • Forthcoming
    • These Few Seeds, by Meghan Sterling
    • The Feast Delayed, by Diane LeBlanc
    • Wind Apples, by Jeff Ewing
    • The Poet & The Architect, by Christine Stewart-Nunez
  • Redux Series
  • Our Titles
    • Poetry Books >
      • NEW--The Curator's Notes, by Robin Rosen Chang
      • NEW--A Cartography of Home, by Hayden Saunier
      • NEW--Tell Me How You Got Here, by Emily Franklin
      • NEW--Self-Portrait with a Million Dollars, by Patricia Clark
      • NEW—A Kinship with Ash, by Heather Swan
      • NEW—Kissing the Long Face of the Greyhound, by Yvonne Zipter
      • NEW—Somatic, by Ann Keniston
      • NEW—Ghost Dogs, by Dion O'Reilly
      • Sugar Fix, by Kory Wells
      • The Honey of Earth, by David Graham
      • The Davids Inside David, by Sarah Wetzel
      • The Bones of Winter Birds, by Ann Fisher-Wirth
      • Strange What Rises, by Gary Whitehead
      • Suspension, by Paige Riehl
      • The Northway, by Lisa Bellamy
      • The Infinite Doctrine of Water, by Michael T. Young
      • Aileron, by Geraldine Connolly
      • No Such Thing As Distance, by Karen Paul Holmes
      • Leaves Surface Like Skin, by Michelle Menting
      • How to Wear This Body, by Hayden Saunier
      • Travel Notes from the River Styx, by Susanna Lang
      • Route 66 and Its Sorrows, by Carolyn Miller
      • The Canopy, by Patricia Clark
      • Bluewords Greening, by Christine Stewart-Nunez
      • Cutting Room, by Jessica de Koninck
      • The Persistence of Longing, by Lynne Knight
      • Confessions of a Captured Angel, by Neil Carpathios
    • Craft Books >
      • The Practicing Poet: Writing Beyond the Basics
      • The Crafty Poet: A Portable Workshop
      • The Crafty Poet II: A Portable Workshop
    • Anthologies >
      • NEW—A Constellation of Kisses
      • The Book of Donuts, edited by Jason Lee Brown and Shanie Latham
      • The Doll Collection
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